Pages

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Bilingual Resources for Thanksgiving

The last few weeks I've been scouring the web finding fun and educational resources for Thanksgiving that I can use with my kids. I've had a blast, but I'm a bit disappointed that I didn't find more resources in Spanish. There are a few good sites that I've listed below, but most are in English.

LESSON PLANS & ACTIVITIES

By far, I think the best lesson plan I've found is from Hubbard's Cupboard. We've enjoyed reading and doing many of the activities listed. In fact, we downloaded the Pilgrim, Pilgrim Emergent Reader Booklet and I had the kids memorize one of the poems to recite on Thanksgiving. This entire site is in English only.

Scholastic also has an incredibly informative site (shown above) on the "first" Thanksgiving that includes a virtual field trip of Plimouth Plantation. You can also check out their November 2010 issue of Scholastic News Bilingual on Turkeys.

We also found a lot of resources in this 30 Days of Thanks & Giving pdf file from the Aussie Pumpkin Patch. Some of the links are old and don't work anymore, but for the most part this is a great free resource with a lot of ideas. English only.

2 comments:

Love your site! Thanks for sharing all of these fantastic resources. I hope you don't mind if I add our teacher-created materials for Spanish learners: http://shop.foreignlanguagehouse.com/spanish/thanksgiving.html Gracias!